Front

Title page of the first edition, edited by Currer Bell

Back

Portrait of the author, over a facsimile signature

Frontispiece Collection

Jane Eyre

Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1847

The first-edition title page, published under Currer Bell before anyone outside the house knew who that was, in three volumes. On the reverse the author herself, over the signature she used once the name was out.

Front: the title page of the 1847 first edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Smith, Elder and Co., London, reproduced from a facsimile plate. Reverse: a portrait of the author with a facsimile signature, from a later source — the 1847 first edition carried no portrait. Both reproduced from public-domain material; the portrait's edition, artist, and scan repository are still to be recorded.